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Sharing what the Cloud Providers don't want you to know. Tips on negotiating your cloud deal & optimizing your environment. Also post the best cloud memes 🤝
Cloud Providers in 2020 vs. Today:
Looks like we’ve hit a new record — incredible achievement for @lovable_dev
The $100M ARR Growth Curve Is Collapsing The speed at which new software companies reach $100M ARR has never been faster. Just a few years ago, hitting this milestone took 5-10 years for most enterprise SaaS companies. Now, companies like Wiz and Cursor are doing it in less…
People rage baiting on the total AWS contract value without realizing how SaaS efficiency in the cloud works Credit to: @CloudZeroInc for publishing these benchmarks
I think people are underestimating their skill in provisioning and negotiating great terms from AWS 88% Gross Margin is unheard of. Means their Cloud costs are 5-7% of revenue which would easily put them in the top decile of SaaS companies
6 months later and 206% follower growth. Goal for end of 2025 was 2k Huge credit to @LifeMathMoney's course: The Art of X which has gotten me to this stage For those interested in getting similar results (Affiliate Link): gumroad.com/a/826040595/XF…
3 Months later and over 50% growth in follower count It feels crazy I didn't start doing this earlier. It's slow and steady, but I am committed to building this for the long haul I promised myself this year I would write more, share commentary, and just create discourse about…
Btw, this still works and is super efficient Just change the site to another transcript generator
Quick GenAI hack 🧠 Have a lot of YouTube videos you want to watch but each one is 15-20mins long? There's a faster way 1. Go to youtubetranscript.com 2. Paste a YouTube URL link and hit 'Go' 3. Copy/Paste transcript into ChatGPT 4o or Claude 3.5 and ask to summarize main…
Sign an AWS commitment Go into debt if you have to
Odd that Oracle announced this publicly over 3 weeks ago while Sama sends an update the day WSJ comes in with a report Hmmmm
What are the odds this is just OpenAI? They're the only one who's forecasted out to 2029 with revenue projections that could support this spend
If you ever want to know why Satya is CEO of $MSFT, it was this moment
“Satya said, ‘Hire Qi Lu, I’ll report to him.’ ” The moment that convinced Ballmer Satya could be CEO.
The exponential decay in pricing continues until morales improves Accelerate
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, our fastest and most cost effective model, is now stable and ready for scaled production use!! It comes with native reasoning capabilities, a 1 million token context window, and is priced at ($0.10 in / 1M) and ($0.40 out / 1M).
Former AWS CEO joining $CRCL Board Definitely not on my bingo card for 2025 But super bullish for stablecoins and the industry
Honored to join the Board of @circle at a pivotal time for internet financial infrastructure. Circle’s trusted stablecoin platform and global reach uniquely position it to help reshape how money works. Excited to support the next chapter. circle.com/pressroom/circ…
I swear I nail these things every time